Richmond Palladium (Daily), 12 July 1904 — Page 1

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WHERE IS THE BET. ELLIS?

THE QUERY PUT TO NEWSPAPERS OFFICES QUITE OFTEN ,;;. ; HAS NOT BEEN FOUND

Church People Have Put the Entire Matter in the Hands of the Police. Girl Theory.

- JUDGE PARKER'S MESSAGE

"I regard the gold standard

as firmly and irrevocably established, and shall act accordingly if the action of the convention of today shall be ratified by the people. As the platform is silent on the subject, my views should be made known to the convention, and if it is proved to be unsatisfactory to the majority, I request you to decline the nomination for me at once, so that another man may be nominated before adjournment.' '

GOOD POSITION

"What is there new in the Ellis ease?" is the query put to newspaper reporters at least fifty times a day. Thequestion has become one of very popular concern, and if there is any possible way of settling it, that way ought to be sought out. It is now a week since Rev. Ellis left home and the family and friends, and without giving notice as to where he was

going. All kinds of theories haye been advanced as to his whereabouts and the cause of his absence, and the papers have been very conservative in dealing with the matter lest the family of Rev. Ellis ba injured. It seems as though he didn't care for their feelings near as much as the public did, for if he did he would noi have left home in the manner attributed to him. The family will not suffer as much from a publication of what is known in the case as much ae fro ma knowledge that everybody is talking about the affair, and every time the story is repeated something is added. There is no better family with

in the confines of Richmond than the Ellis family and none more deserving. The story that is being sent over the State that they are in straightened circumstances does them a real injury, inasmuch'as it tends to advance the theory that with several ambitious ckildren, and a wealthy church back f them, want would come to them. Such reports have no foundation in fact and should be given little redence. Newspapers all over the country are devoting considerable space to the subject, and the whole affair is thoroughly advertised. It appears to a casual observer that with the advertising the subject has received it would be a small matter to locate the missing parties. Pictures of Rev. Ellis have been printed in nearly all of the metropolitan papers and a description of him has been finished.

Richmond Boy Superintends Concern.

Large

Charles MeCulIough, son of George McCullough, of this city, has been appointed superintendent of the East Chicago Electric Light Plant. This is a splendid position and carries with it a good salary.

MERGER

IS

COMPLETED

ZIMMERMAN PRESIDENT OF C. C. & L., C. H. & D., AND P. M. GENERAL OFFICES

Of C. C. & L. Are Done Away With C .H. & D. Cincinnati Terminals Used.

WALTER

WELLMAN

SAYS SHEEHAN

WILL BE CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

TAGGART WESTERNER

He Has Been a Disappointment to Parker .Managers Not rJJp , to. Chalk Line.

(Special to the Palladium.) Cincinnati, Ohio, July 12. The merger of the C. C. & L., the C. H. & D is at last entirely completed, and this morning President Eugene Zimmerman of the C. H. & D., took up his work as president of the C. H. & D. system, which includes the three abve named roads. The general offices of the C. C. & L., in this city, will be done away

with entirely, and but a few employees will be kept. The three roads will be operated as one, with one set of general offices, but the Pere Marquette offices in Chicago will still be run 'as more than common terminal offices. The C, C. & L. will hereafter nse the C, H. & D. terimnals in this city exclusively, both freight and passenger.

The nine miles of track between'

Griffith, the present northern terminal

of the C, C. & L., and Hammond,!

Ind., when entrance into Chicago can easily be made, will be built at once.

CONFESSES ALL

THE

J0NESB0R0

HORROR

GRI

.ARREST OF A MAN SUSPECTED OF THE HEINOUS SCRIME

i

WOUNDS ON THE TRAIL

Great Throng of People Visit Scene

of the Awfnl Crime Many Suspicions.

THE CONVENTION'S REPLY.

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"The platform adopted by by this convention is silent on the question of monetary standard because it is not regarded by us as a possible issue in this campaign, and only campaign issues were mentioned In the platform. Therefore, there is nothing in the views expressed by you in the telegram just received which would preclude a man entertaining them from accepting a nomination on said platform."

Chicago, July 12. Walter Wellman, writing to the Record-Herald from St. Louis, says: "Judge Parker has imposed his will upon the new national committee and forced it unwillingly to defer the election of a new national chairman till the committee can meet in New York, ten days or two weeks hence. The friends of Taggart, of Indiana, somewhat sore over the gold telegram annex to the

The papers this morning and two j platfonn and fearing that Taggart

local papers last evening connected Rev. Ellis' absence with that of a

Miss Slick, of South Fifth street, this city, who has been missing since last Tuesday. Miss Slick worked for the Ellis family during the absence of Mrs. Ellis some time ago when she cared for her sick mother. It was at this time she became acquainted with Rev. Ellis, who has been seen in her company many a time by several parties here in Richmond. The disappearance of the minister and the hired girl on th'e same afternoon at once aroused suspicion and the matter became public talk. The church officials held a meeting and turned the matter over to the superintendent of police and told him to use every means to ferret the matter to the .last ditch. The truth must be known sooner or later and vigilance on the part of the police is demanded by the public, who are and have been on the anxious seat for a week.

j will not be chosen chairman, wanted jto force the fighting and elect him

yesterday, despite the wishes of the candidate and in defiance of the rule that the nominee for president is always permitted to name his national chairman and campaign manager. "When he gets around to it Judge Parker will choose his chairman, and all indications are that his choice

will fall not upon Taggart, who led ation was performed, was arrested

Woman Accused of Causing the Death of Two Girls is Under Arrest. Evansville, Ind., July 12. Marie Steiler, midwife, has confessed to performing an operation wThich resulted in the death of 19-year-old Bel via Smith. The woman is under indictment for causing the death of Delia Vann last March, and is now charged with another crime. Late yesterday evening Mrs. Louise

Goeke a wealthy widow of high standing in the city, drove to police headquarters and furnished bond for Mrs. Steiler. As the old woman saw her

daughter approaching she uttered a cry and fell unconscious into her arms. "I am CO years old," Mrs. Steiler said yesterday, "I have been in business a long time and have made lots of money. It is all gone. I have not a dollar. I want to go to prison. I have not long to live anyway." Zoe Rogers, at whose house the Smith girl was taken after the oper-

Greensboro, Ind., July 12.--Haley

Gipe, 21, was arresteJ last night,

charged with the murder of Mrs.

Mary Starljuck and her infant child

Saturday' night. Gipe .was taken by Sheriff Christo

pher to the Henry county jail at New

castle.

;Gipe is said to bear a bad reputa

tion. His lather, Henry Gipe, has been in the penitentiary. When he was arrested he denied any knowledge of the crime, but was visibly affected, lie turned pale, trembled and stam- j niered as he told Prosecuror Ed Jackson that he could prove an alibi. He

was put into a buggy and driven apily to Newcastle. Tomorrow Sheriff Christopher and Jackson will come back to Greensboro and arrest two others who re believed to have been associated with Gipe in the murder. I Gipe said at the Newcastle jail that he had been in Knightstown Saturday night and had gone to Greensboro about 8 o'cloek and had gone to his home and gone to bed about 9 o'clock. He said e knew nothing of the murrCuntil 7 o'clock Sunday morning.

3hnh he made several conflicting statements and admitted that he was up at 1 o'clock in the morning, although he explained it away by saying that he got up to take a walk. Several stories Gipe told before his arrest got him under suspicion. Many people believe that Gipe had a hand in the murder. Gipe was reared in the neighborhood of the Starbuck farm and knows the farm as well as does its owner.

The haste with which Sheriff Chris- j

topher took his prisoner out of

BELL TELEPHOI

Company Organizing to Take Over All Telephone Lines in Four States. Boston, July 12. The Bell Telephone company is reported to be organizing a $20,000,000 company to take over all the telephone lines in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.

IiMAPOLIS

TO PITTSBHRG

THROUGH INTERURBAN TRAVEL VIA RICHMOND SOON

WHAT PROMOTORS SAY

The Local Lines Will Sell Traffic Rights, Probably, and Are Willing to Eenter System.

IMPROVEMENTS ON PANHANDLE

BLOCK SIGNAL SYSTEM TWEEN TWO TOWNS

BE-

WORK SOON STARTED

Other Improvements to be Made Locally Double Tracking of the Division Goes On.

The latest thing inthe improvement

line that is being done by the Penn- i

"Before the winter sets in it is probable that one of the greatest deals of modern interurban railway management will be completed, whereby through traffic will be installed between Indianapolis and Pittsburg, through Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania," said a well known interurban promoters at the Pennsylvania depot last evening. "In this part the Richmond Street & Interurban company and the Dajton & Western tracks will be the means for the through travel. This probability of through traffic will at all events be realized soon, as t the many intricate details of the merger will take time. "Negotiations to secure controlling interests in the proposed route as far as Wheeling, W. Va., have been started and will result in something. There are two methods that are being tried to gain the intervening lines," he said, "purchasing them out right, and absorbing them all into one big road, or by securing the traf

fic privileges. It is probable that the latter way will be adopted. One reason for this prediction is that there

! were interchangeable mileage books

issued not long ago, which were good on all the lines in the proposed system, and this has led a good many to think that the traffic rights only will be secured." The well known interurban official

sylvania railroad is the installing of isaid also that the first wa would , - i x i cost more money than the promoters the block surnal svstera, single track,, . , . , . , , xl , . I were willing to put into it, and that between Columbus, Ohio, and Indi-j for a very nominal sum he was sure anapolis, Ind., through this city. ,The j that the owners of the various roads work will be started in the near fu- j would be willing to grant the rights' lure, said one of the road officials ! f- the through cars on their lines."

! 1 lie olhcial has been going over 'the proposed route and was on his '. t i T T

lomewaru wav vesteruav evenimr. ue

Greensboro prevented anv demonstra

tion. The fact that an arrest had j this morning here, and from the mobeen made was not known until late j ment of starting the work will be

in the evening 'and consequently the j pushed forward with all speed. The ;savs that the feelinsr is verv favorable

people were not advised ot the arrest until too late to wreak vengeance on the prisoner.

J

HN

BROWN

the fight for Parker in the West, but upon Sheehan, the judge's personal representative in the convention. "August Belmont is ambitious for political honors, and he, like Taggart, has been of great service to the cause. But it is plain that Judge Parker knows what he is about. He is out to win, and those who are best

charged with complicity in the crime

George McGregor, an uncle of the girl, who made the arrangements for the operation, was released on a $1,000 bond. He returned to Somerville, where he conducts a drug store. McGregor is a widower and for the last three years his niece has been keeping house for him. He denies respon-

MR NEWS Lian Dian, Sian, July 12. Headquarters men say that Count ' Keller is now eleven miles west of here, where the two armies are facing each other on the opposite height either side of Liank river, ready for battle whenever ordered. Trieste, July 12 The American battleship squadron arrived today and exchanged salutes with the land batteries. , St. Petersburg, July 12. A mem- ;; ber of the general staff says the result of the loss at Kai Cliou will robably be the evacuation of New Chwang. Kuropatkins position is more difUcult than General Robertson's in South Africa. It will be a long time before Kuropatkin will have enough supplies and men to assume the offensive.

informed as to his views believe he sibi,ily for the girl's condition

will make Sheehan his campaign manager and ask Belmont to serve as treasurer of the national committee or as chairman of the finance com

mittee.

"I am told on good authority it is Judge Parker's idea, or was ten days ago, to have the headquarters in New York and a western bureau to make the contest for Indiana and Illinois, to be presided over by Taggart. "Taggart has been a disappointment to the Parker managers in the last few days. When they talked of forcing a gold plank into the platform by means of an appeal from the committee to the convention Taggart told the mplainly he would not stand for it. He declared a gold plank would cost them Indiana, where so

many of the laithrMl si ill atihere to the Bryan ideas. He alsobalked on

the Davis vice presidential program.

Before the death of the girl he told

the detectives a rambling story about a man at Princeton having been the author of the girl's downfall Miss Smith protected her uncle to the last.

DR. EDMONDS Will Assist Dr. Pratt, of Harvard Medical School. Dr. C. W. Edmunds, who has been spending his vacation here, has return

ed to Ann Arbor, Mich. The latter

Leaves the Scenes of Festivity and His Whereabouts are Unknown. John Brown, of South Sixth street,

who a week or so ago tried to kill himself with bullets, and was unsuccessful, has disappeared. Last night there was a "doin's" at the Brown

home and John was to have done the elegant, but when it came time for John to don his dress suit he disappeared from the scene and has not reported since. Anxious vigil was kept all night for his return and the morning dawned with his smiling face still missing from the table. The police were notified, and will make an effort to locate the absent one.

As John is bullet-proof there are no fears of death by shooting.

block signals will be put in by a large j through travel, and that it may be force of men and the work is not ex-; toward the proposed system of pected to take very long considering ! through travel and that it may be the importance of the work, although extended even further, over a month will be probably con- j In answer to a query as to whether sumed. For about one-third of the I the Richmond Sireet and Interurban distance the division is double track- j and the Dayton and Western had been ed, about three miles on either side j purchased or whether the rights had of this city being so, a very large j been leased, he would not vouchsafe per centage of double tracking for la statement, saying that these roads

this part of the country. It is said locally that soon the entire division will be double-tracked, as work on different parts is always going on and the various sections of double track will soon be joined together. Block signals are to be established and besides this, other improvements in the way of new telegraph stations,

etc., are to be made, and the division

had not been considered as much as had the ones in Ohio. It is probable, he said, that the traffic rights of the two roads would be secured. In answer to the question as to whether the two roads above mentioned were willing to enter this sj-stem he replied in vigorous terms that they were, and added that it would be a great thing

for them both, as well as for all the

will be gone over in a general way by j cities along the route. "The East is

EDITOR DEAD FrederickLauenstein Expires Suddenly at Evansville. (Bv Associated Press.) Evansville. Ind., July 12. Fred-

the improvement gang. At some time soon the division will be fixed up with double track block signals, but not until the double-tracking is completed. Safety caused by the block signals is the chief cause of their being in

stalled, as, by the use of them, no train can enter upon a stretch of track between the block signals until all other trains are out of this particular stretch.

TELEPHONE POLE

summer, where he will act as assistant to Dr. Pratt, of the Harvard Medical School. In the fall Dr. Edmunds returns to

The talk here is that Taggart, like j Ann Arbor to resume his position as

win 1 1 i rose ol -unwauKee, nas com- uiMiucior m puarmacoiogv ana iner-

part of the month he will go to Bs- crick Lauenstein, Sr., aged GO, owner j

ton, Mass., for the remainder of the of the Evansville Demokrat, "Ger

man paper," dropped dead today just after boarding a train for St. Louis.' Apoplexy was the cause of his death.

Fell to the Ground Injuring Frank Dickson.

full," he said and the people will seek more profitable places of work.

The interurban will open up the

small towns to them much better than steam roads would do."

The Richmond Interurban people think that the project is a very feasible one, s all the tracks are laid, and well ballasted, and the consent of the companies will surely be gained.

TITLE

Came to Life Again After Being Declared Dead.

mitted political hara-kiri by failing to toe up to the Parker chalk line."

apeutics in the university of Michigan.

Mrs. Coughlin and daughter, Helen, of Indianapolis, who have been visit

ing Mrs. Murphy of east Main street,

Went to Pipua this morning.

"Chick" Dwyer, the proprietor of the station restaurant, found a few

Frank Dickson, an employe of mornings ago that his pet turtle was

the Home Telephone Company fell! quite dead, or at least so the loung-

fro m apole near the reservoir this j ers declared. He threw it into the morning and was badly bruised. He at j waste basket after vain efforts to re-

tempted to attach a wire to the pole which was very old, and it toppled over, throwing Mr. Dickson to the

ground.

morning he

suscitate it and this

found the dead turtle walking over the floor, with a big piece of chickem in its mouth.